• 'A day in the life' Paul asks for it

Paul McCartney's story, like anyone else's, is a love story.

Of love raptured, consummated, contradictory and longed for.

A story, his own, that he has left written, almost accidentally, in the hundreds of songs that he has composed throughout his life, both for The Beatles and alone, but that is especially well understood in his first steps in music.

Now, about to turn 80 years old, he publishes a selection of 154 of them in Dome Books under the title

Letras

, an umbrella with which to

cover the history of his music

but which serves, without him realizing it, to explain to McCartney through young Paul.

I lost my little girl

The artist, one of the greatest that the world of music has known, would not be understandable without the circumstances that conditioned his youth.

The big issue, without a doubt, was the death of his mother, sick with breast cancer.

They were united by a

rapt love

that surely was the trigger for McCartney to start composing.

At the age of 14, and just a few months after the loss, he wrote

I lost my little girl

.

McCartney did not publish the subject until 1991, but it is surely the most important to understand everything that came after.

Historical image of the Beatles

Eleanor rigby

Empowered by the release that music brought after his mother passed away, Paul opted for music and met John before he became Lennon. By then, John was cool. Not only was he a year older than him, but he was playing in a band that he ended up inviting him to. «He

didn't ask me, that was very John, he made someone else say something to me so as not to look bad if I said no

. At first I said that I would think about it, not because I was being tough, but because I really had to think about it. A week later I accepted, "he recalls in Letras, a book that is the result of five years of conversations with the poet Paul Muldoon.

At that time, music helped him to get rid of the pain, but it was not his only lifeline.

There were the scouts, who were so important to him that he even missed the first gig with John and the Quarrymen because he was camping.

At that time, McCartney also

befriended an older woman whom he initially visited to do housework for a shilling and who left a deep mark on him

.

The relationship became

Eleanor Rigby

, a theme about the pain that comes from loneliness.

Please please me

The relationship between McCartney and Lennon suffered ups and downs, it was, in short, a contradictory love. But that ambiguity made The Beatles great.

The competitive tension

, the complementary personalities, the fragile balance between friendship and rivalry.

“We were a great influence on each other. Readers will detect conflicting emotions in my memories of John, but that's because our relationship was changeable.

Sometimes it was full of love and admiration, and sometimes it wasn't,

”McCartney acknowledged at the book launch at Southbank, London. “We grew up together, we climbed the ladder of life side by side. Some 16 or 17-year-olds from Liverpool don't tell each other that they loved each other and I never told them, I could never get to tell them. It is good to realize now how much I have loved him.

From those confronting characters that both had,

Please please me was

born

, the first number one of the group and the realization that the band was not a single thing.

“If I didn't detect a problem, John would do it, and if he didn't, I would.

If we both got stuck, George Martin, our producer, would show up.

That collaboration made it

lucky to belong to that band called The Beatles,

"explains McCartney in the book, which goes on sale this Wednesday.

Paul McCartney, in the 70s.

I want to hold your hand

Lennon and MacCartney shared the years when idealized love is confused with sexual desire. Eroticism was a force that drove everything I did. For example, in I want to hold your hand it said 'I want to hold your hand' and probably do a lot more things!

There I was 21 years old, we had moved into our first apartment in London and they had given me the small room

, so I went to the attic of the house of Jane Asher, my girlfriend at the time, "recalls McCartney.

There, in the Asher home, Paul remembered the maternal love that had been taken from him.

Margaret, Jane's mother, treated me like a son.

We got along very well.

I loved being there because they were a real family, "he says in

Letras

.

It was in that garret on Wimpole Street that Paul, who had a small piano, dreamed of the tune of

Yesterday

.

For weeks, he

was asking everyone he met to verify that it was not from some song that already existed

.

Yesterday

It had the melody, but not the lyrics. And the message he wanted to convey with her was not quite reaching him, so he began to hum it with

the first nonsense that came

to mind: "

Scrambled eggs, oh baby how much I love your legs, scrambled eggs

." At the age of 22, during a trip with Jane to Portugal, inspiration came. "I thought people like sad songs. I still find it strange that people say that it is the number one pop song of all time and that

Rolling Stone

magazine rates it

as the best of the 20th century. It seems grandiose for something that was born in such a mysterious way, "says McCartney.

Perhaps unconsciously, or in a reinterpretation over the years, McCartney returned, as in

I lost my little girl

, to the central theme of his work: the death of his mother.

“At first they told me that Yesterday was about that and I denied it, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that unconsciousness could be part of the context.

It was very strange that the loss of our mother to cancer was not discussed

.

It doesn't surprise me that that came out in this song in which sweetness competes with a pain that can hardly be described.

Paul McCartney, in the early 1970s.

Let it be

If

Yesterday

closed the subject of love that was taken from him,

Let it be

finished off the bittersweet love between John and Paul.

The finishing touch to their professional relationship came at a “difficult moment, because we were heading towards the breakup of the Beatles.

John and Yoko had started dating and that had an impact on the group dynamics.

She was in the middle of the recordings.

We were uncles from the north, it was part of our culture to smile and endure, so we repressed ourselves and let it be

.

I dreamed of my mother at that time, that she saw me worried about everything that was happening and told me: 'Everything will be fine, let it be [

let it be

]'.

It's sad that the Beatles never played it in concert. "

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